Have you ever thought about the things our kids won’t know? The staples from our pasts that have been replaced with newer models or replaced entirely. Here are just a few that I came up with…

• Car windows that you had to physically “roll up” or “roll down.”
• Alarm clocks where the numbers “flipped over” instead of the digital ones nowadays (or iPods)
• Riding in cars without wearing a carseat or seatbelt
• VHS, cassette tapes, large boomboxes (I still have my original one circa 1990) (I remember 8-tracks, too)
• Card catalogs at the library with yellowed index cards and a musty smell
• Floppy disks
• Full service gas stations
• Saying goodbye to loved ones as they board the airplane… now we have to say goodbye before security
• Black & white TV (bonus… they will never have to use pliers to turn the channel!)
• TV dinners with foil lids
• Film for cameras, negatives (I can even remember the cameras that you had to add the flash)
• Chicken pox
• Standing in lines to get registered for college courses (I only had to do this once or twice before everything was computerized)
• Stamps you had to lick
• On the phasing out list…
  • car lighters
  • home phone/land lines… You mean there were phones that had cords? We hardly even had rotary dials, ourselves.
  • Shredding your own cheese
  • Walking to school
  • Smoking in restaurants

Send me a comment if you want to add to the lists! Thanks